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Being a professor, I am of two minds on this. On part of me says that you have to have dissent, even idiots like this, in order to prepare students for the "real world" and to show them the other side in a way that I, as an advocate of capitalism, can never teach them. In that, I agree with Rush that we ought to have ONE Marxist per campus, as an "exhibit" of what not to know.

But the other side of me knows that they are like rabbits---they breed within departments because their only goal is power, not teaching. They tend to dominate the faculty committees and boards because the rest of us are doing real work.

Also, would anyone ever think to have a prof. whose "bag" is "flat earth theory?" Or "Lysenkoism?" No. These are proven completely wrong, so we do not teach them anymore. Well, nothing has been proven "wronger" than Marxism. From that perspective, it should not be taught, because to teach it is to deliberately expose students to false "knowledge" masquerading as fact.

However, there are a couple of pretty devout Marxists on my campus in other departments. It has gotten around to me that at least one spends MUCH of his time in class basically trying to refute "schweikart 101." In other words, my class has dominated his agenda! So as long as the playing field is even, I'm confident free market ideas and democratic/republican concepts will easily triumph.

**********But the other side of me knows that they are like rabbits---they breed within departments because their only goal is power, not teaching. They tend to dominate the faculty committees and boards because the rest of us are doing real work.

Also, would anyone ever think to have a prof. whose "bag" is "flat earth theory?" Or "Lysenkoism?" No. These are proven completely wrong, so we do not teach them anymore. Well, nothing has been proven "wronger" than Marxism. From that perspective, it should not be taught, because to teach it is to deliberately expose students to false "knowledge" masquerading as fact. **********

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On part of me says that you have to have dissent, even idiots like this, in order to prepare students for the "real world" and to show them the other side in a way that I, as an advocate of capitalism, can never teach them.

Many students unlearn this crap they learn in college once they find the real world and a real paycheck. Kids that work their way through college in real jobs already are learning about the real world anyhow. I had a Marxist professor and it didn't affect me much at all----I was already concerned then about how much of my money the government was trying to grab.